attic
attic 英 [ˈætɪk] 美 [ˈætɪk]
n. 阁楼；顶楼；鼓室上的隐窝
名词复数:attics
- An attic is an unfinished room at the very top of a house, just below the roof. It’s often the setting for creepy stories because it’s a room people don’t go in very often.
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- n. 阁楼；顶楼；鼓室上的隐窝
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1. These stairs will take you up to the attic.
这楼梯通到阁楼。
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2. Such leaks are often found around doors and windows, but they also can be in your basement or attic.
这个漏口通常在门缝或窗口处，但是这样的漏口还可能出现在地下室和顶楼。
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3. We were frightened of the attic but also fascinated by its smells and sounds.
阁楼既让我们感到恐惧，但它的气息和声响又总是让我们着迷。
- Attic (adj.) 1590s, "pertaining to Attica" (q.v.), the region around Athens, from Latin Atticus "Athenian," from Greek Attikos "Athenian, of Attica." The Attic dialect came to be regarded as the literary standard of ancient Greece, and it passed into the koine of the Alexandrine and Roman periods. Attested from 1560s as an architectural term for a type of column base.
- attic (n.) "top story under the roof of a house," by 1807, shortened from attic story (1724). Attic in classical architecture meant "a small, square decorative column of the type often used in a low story above a building's main facade," a feature associated with the region around Athens (see Attic). The word then was applied by architects to "a low decorative facade above the main story of a building" (1690s in English), and it then came to mean the space enclosed by such a structure. The modern use is via French attique. "An attic is upright, a garret is in a sloping roof" [Weekley].
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